Most animals eat the placenta after giving birth. There are some people out there in different cultures who are eatting their placentas. It contains various vitamins and minerals.

Many women suffer post natal depression, which means they get depressed after giving birth to their child. This is due to the rapid decrease of hormone in the body. It has been found that if a woman eats her placenta, then she is less likely to get post natal depression.

People in western cultures are now taking this idea on and are starting to eat their placentas.

Do you think this is an ok thing to do?
If not, why not?

Also, there are things called Placenta Parties.
Check out this link to see what I am talking about.

Is this going too far?

That's pretty **** up even for me. I'd rather deal with a slightly depressed women than knowing that she's eating her parts.

I'm a pretty sick dude, but damn that dude is twisted. This could be a good add for vegetarianism. I don't think ill be eating meat for a while... well couple hours.

lol yeah that is pretty disgusting...

but if people want to do that i have no problem with it, each to their own.

What a lot of people do, it dry it so it turns into a powder, then they put them into capsules, so they take them that way.

lol that is still pretty sick

why not just have normal vitamins

I think it is because you are re-ingesting some of the hormones, so you don't get depression.

I'll lets pills slide, that isn't bad.

Pills are passable
But I honestly categorize what they are doing as "cannibalism" of a sort.

Kind of. Say if I were to eat my own placenta, well, that comes from me, so I can do whatever I like with it. Going to a placenta party, however, and eating someone elses, well, that just seems quite gross.

Eating your own placenta wouldn't be cannibalism as you are eating a part of yourself, whereas eating another's placenta would be cannibalism I think because it is from another... or maybe it isn't cannibalism if its consensual.

I'll look up the definition of cannibalism...

dictionary.com defines it as "the eating of human flesh by another human being."

So according to that a placenta party would be cannibalism, whereas eating your own placenta wouldn't be cannibalism as it is not from another human being.